Improvement in horseshoes



UNIT-En STATES PATENT GEFICE.

TIMOTHY W. MURPHY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT- IN -HORSEUSHCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,326, dated February 8, 1876 application filed January 21, 1876.

To all 'whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY W. MURPHY, ot' Washington, D. G., have invented certain new and uset'ul Improvements in Horseshoes, otl which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part `ot' this specication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ot my irnproved shoe. Fig. 2 is a plan view withv side clips removed. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the clip.

My invention relates to that class of horseshoes to be fastened to the hoot' of the animal without nails or screws; and it consists in the combination of devices, hereinafter described and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents a shoe-plate, provided with the countersunk dovetail vertical grooves a a a, these grooves being larger at the bottoni than at the top. The clips or fastenings B B B are provided with corresponding tenons b b b, fitting snugly into the grooves a a a, and these clips may have their tenons extended downward, so as to form heel and toe calks for the shoe, While at the upper end they have the small projections or hooks c c c, which tit into corresponding recesses in the hoof, for the purpose of securing the shoe in position. These hooks may have the additional security of a small screw passing through `the clip i-nto the hoof; or a narrow spring-steel TIMOTHY W. MURPHY.

` Witnesses:

WILL. H. MoXoN, Jos. U.BURKE'.1. 

